Wednesday, October 13, 2010

In an update from my PTR post, I have found that not only have they fixed the OP kitty death pounce of ravagey doom, but also fixed lifebloom for macro useage. Both good things.

MACROS

The following macros are 4.0 updates to the macros I currently use. Healing didn't change much, in terms of spells, so most of these are feral. It is likely I'll be tweaking these macros as I grow accustomed to the new abilities and grow away from my old bind habits. It is also likely that you may find a different arrangement of abilities to be useful: feel free to hack these macros apart and replace things with your own preference. That's what macros are for :)

- NOTE 1: if you are not a primary-spec resto and secondary-spec feral, you will want to look at all instances of [spec:1] and [spec:2] in these macros to replace them with your appropriate spec.

- NOTE 2: I use an old-model G15 keyboard, which offers me at least 4 "easily reachable" extra keybind keys for pinky reach. You might be a little more pressed for keybind space if you don't have or use one of these, and have to rely more on mouse-click actions.

My Skull Bash Key (G12):Skull bash is our new feral-form spell interrupt. While the following can be done by placing the abilities on your respective stance bars (besides the mouseover portion of Wild Growth), I prefer to just macro it in Bindpad.

My Stuns Key (G18):This key used to be my remove curse macro; my cleanse has been consolidated and thus freed up this button. As above, the following can be done by placing the abilities on your respective stance bars (besides the targeting portion of Cyclone), I prefer to just macro it in Bindpad. You could throw warstomp in there, but I prefer having access to that straight from feral forms.

Mushroom Toggle:Casting mushrooms (up to 3 at a time) and detonating them requires different casts. While we won't learn this spell until level 85, it is good to plan ahead and map out where you'd like to put this ability in your binds/bars, and consolidating the two into one toggled macro is a great way to save space.

#showtooltip/cast [mod:shift] Detonate Mushroom; Wild Mushroom

Shift: Detonate Mushrooms (boom them)

Normal: Wild Mushroom (place them)

STAMPEDE (~):While we won't learn Stampeding Roar until level 83, I wanted to save a spot for it. While yet again the following can be done by placing the abilities on your respective stance bars, I prefer to just macro it in Bindpad. /shrug

Caster: Hurricane. Because. THUNDER AND LIGHTENING, VERY VERY FRIGHTENING!

My feral AOE Key (q):Swipe gets spammed a lot, as a cat. Swipe has a cooldown as a bear, but it used to get spammed a lot. We'll be getting Thrash, another bear AoE, at 81, so we have to plan for that. I like binding tons of stuff to my q and e keys :)

If you'd like to add [mod:alt]Mangle(Cat Form); then you'll need to kill the #showtooltip and some blank spaces to make room.

Bear:

Swipe,

+shift: Thrash

+alt: Mangle

My feral "E" Key:Pulverize is an important new bear tool you need to include in your rotation. It is a "CP-user" of lacerate stacks, so binding it to your lacerate key makes sense to me. As for cat form, I haven't changed any of my old binds, but will probably replace Maim with something else down the road, once I get used to my new stuns macro.

Maim (because it's where I'm used to it. If you're using a combined stuns key elsewhere, you may consider replacing this with something else).

+shift: Ferocious Bite

+alt: Rip (you might consider making this the default by removing the red text, if you don't want Maim here)

Bear:

Lacerate and Maul,

+shift: Pulverize and Maul,

+alt: hold alt to not use Maul

My T Key:An update to my "t" key. It's got a bunch of random but useful stuff in it, including my ToL shift. As a note, if you are feral, you might want to consider a cast-sequence instead for catform which is in the next macro down, as you can now use unstealthed Ravage after using feral charge.

My Catform Charge+Ravage Key (t):The improved feral charge talent makes your next ravage usable while not stealthed, for a short period of time after charging in cat form. Note that if your ravage misses or is a failed attempt due to positioning, it still consumes the buff.

...as your catform shapeshift, which would allow you to use a rejuvenation cast to break cat form automatically, and not loose mouseover capabilities. That's assuming your catform binds/bars don't already have heals still bound to them. Any heal cast while in a feral form will automatically deshift you back to caster form, iirc.

Have you been able to make the Skull Bash macro work? I tried last night and no matter the form I was in, it kept showing the Skull Bash (requires Cat Form) spell and never let me see the Bear Form one. My old macro on which its based had the Mangle (Cat Form); Mangle (Bear Form) part to it and that wouldn't work so I took out the Cat/Bear Form part since its no longer reflected in the actual name. Anyway, hope I can figure it out tonight, and thanks for all the other macros!

Not sure why your skull bash wasn't working, the macro was firing skull bash for me. I did, however, add a /stopmacro [form:1/3] to keep it from actually casting wild growth while I was in my resto spec but bear or cat form :)

I wanted to create a macro that could cast a healing spell on my mouseover if I have any, otherwise cast the healing spell on me, while if I had an enemy mouseover it would cast a dps spell.

Got it working and it looks like this, if anyone would be interested:#showtooltip/cast [@mouseover,help] Nourish; [@mouseover,harm] Wrath; Nourish

Obviously Nourish and Wrath can be replaced by whatever spell you want. (Rejuvenation/Moonfire etc.)

Originally I wanted something different, but I don't think it's possible, but if it is, then it'd be awesome if someone could help me out!

I wanted to make a macro that did as follows:Casts a damage spell on my mouseover when I hold Shift, following the normal targetting rules if no mouseover exists.Casts a healing spell on my mouseouver, if no mouseover exists then casts the healing spell on me. In any odd case, such as mouseovering a harmful target while targetting a friendly target, it would still heal me.

"Casts a damage spell on my mouseover when I hold Shift, following the normal targetting rules if no mouseover exists.Casts a healing spell on my mouseouver, if no mouseover exists then casts the healing spell on me. In any odd case, such as mouseovering a harmful target while targetting a friendly target, it would still heal me."

This might work for you. I think. /shrug? It's the tail end of your request that makes things somewhat difficult.